Vote means state likely to retain Common Core education standards

10:57 PM,
Feb. 13, 2013

Indiana Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, on Jan. 15, 2013, was part of a news conference, At the Statehouse in Indianapolis, in support of his proposal to withdraw state schools from Common Core standards.

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Indiana is unlikely to pull out of the Common Core education standards this year.

A legislative effort to scrap the national voluntary measures fizzled Wednesday but only after an amendment watered down a GOP-backed bill that would have blocked the state from implementing them.

After a 7-4 party-line vote in the House Education Committee, amended Senate Bill 193 now explicitly allows the state to roll out second-grade Common Core standards next year as planned, following standards already in place for kindergarten and first grade. ...